6.5.12

Here is your regular (especially burgeoning) Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond.

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, under the baton of Lawrence Renes, performs Leonard Bernstein's Serenade after Pluto's "Symposium", with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja (embedded here), supplemented with music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and John Adams. [ARTE Live Web]

Live from Munich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program of music by Messiaen, Ligeti, Tristan Murail, and George Benjamin, with George Benjamin at the podium. [France Musique]

You can also listen to George Benjamin conducting the Ensemble Intercontemporain, in music of Donatoni, Borowski, Boulez, and Schönberg, from the Cité de la Musique in Paris. [France Musique]

From back in 2001, a performance of Franz Liszt's La Légende de Saint-Elisabeth, with Melanie Diener and Howard Arman conducting the MDR Symphony in the Frauenkirche in Dresden. [France Musique]

From just last year, a concert given in memory of conductor Charles Mackerras, with Roger Norrington conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle in Mozart's C Minor Mass, also in the Frauenkirche. [France Musique]

Watch the Compagnie Illico in choreography by Thomas Lebrun, Death and the Maiden, set to the string quartet of that name by Franz Schubert, performed by the Quatuor Voce, from the Maison de la Danse. [ARTE Live Web]

An oldie but a goodie: Mstislav Rostropovich conducting Tchaikovsky's Iolanta with the Orchestre de Paris, back in 1984. [Österreichischer Rundfunk]

Forget the Debussy anniversary: could this be the year for the Théodore Dubois revival? Thierry Hillériteau has some thoughts on the recordings and festival (at the Palazetto Bru Zane in Venice) honoring the composer. [Le Figaro]